Offering an alternative to Gas Pedal or accelerator Pedal, I would offer the simplistic term " GO PEDAL " this term, which I use often, is simple, but universal enough to use with: ICE, Hybrid, and EV.
*Dennis Lee Miles * *Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* *E-Mail:* *evprofes...@evprofessor.com* <evprofes...@evprofessor.com> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* Dade City, Florida 33523 USA On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:23 AM, brucedp5 via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > 'Unplugging the other car triggered an alarm which made me jump' > > > http://scholarsandrogues.com/2014/06/21/two-weeks-of-owning-an-electric-car-renewable-journal-for-6212014/ > Two weeks of owning an electric car - Renewable Journal for 6/21/2014 > By Brian Angliss > > [image > http://scholarsandrogues.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/nissanleafba.jpg > NissanLeafBA > ] > > Today I had what can only be described as an "electric car moment." I was > driving back home from my kung fu lesson and passed by a gas station that's > under construction. As I passed it, I thought was "hey, that's getting > close. I'll be able to get gas there... wait a second...." > > No. No, I won't need to get gas at that station. > > There have been other interesting moments over the last two weeks as well. > I > was out of town for some of the last couple of weeks, and I left my car at > the airport while I was out. But the distance from my home to DIA is more > than half a charge on my Leaf, especially with the AC running, so I needed > to make sure I parked near a charger. > > Thankfully, Canopy Parking on Tower Road has chargers in both valet and > covered parking, and I was able to find a charger to plug in to. I did have > a moment of panic, however, when I pulled up and found that the charger had > only a single plug, and it was already plugged into another car. > Thankfully, > however, that car was done charging, so I unplugged it and plugged the > charger into mine. Unfortunately, doing so triggered the alarm, which made > me jump a bit. > > And how do I know the charging was done? The charger was off, which means > that the computer in the car turned the charger off. Had the charger been > on > still, I'm not sure what I would have done, since I forgot my own personal > charger.... Never again. > > For the record - if a Leaf is plugged in and all three blue lights are > either solid on or off, the Leaf is fully charged. And if the Leaf's owner > is polite, he or she has set the car into "auto lock" mode, which means > that > the charger is locked into the charging port until the car is doing > charging, at which point the charger unlocks and someone else can pull the > charger out. That's what I did. The only time I'd lock the charger > completely is if I needed to use my own charger, and that's to prevent > someone from stealing my charger. Those things are expensive. > > Since that scare, however, I'll be taking my own personal charger to the > airport from now on. Along with a nice long, 15+ amp rated extension cord. > > One more electric car moment to share today - I was driving with my wife > last weekend, and I was talking about how the Leaf can out accelerate most > cars when I put my foot on the gas. She pointed out that it's not the "gas" > at all - it's the "accelerator." > > The accelerator pedal needs a shorter name for electric cars ... > [(c) scholarsandrogues.com] > > > > > For all EVLN posts use: > > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date > > > http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/19/google-hosts-experience-electric-event-for-employees/ > Google Hosts Experience Electric Event For Employees > > > http://mybroadband.co.za/news/gadgets/104501-the-skunk-sas-bad-ass-riot-control-drone.html > Skunk riot-control e-drone> lights,lasers,warnings,80-pepper-balls/sec > > > http://www.automotiveit.com/gm-demonstrates-en-v-2-0-in-test-of-city-driving/news/id-009293 > Chevy EN-V is Segway/GM's networked/autonomus-version of a Twizy EV > http://gas2.org/2014/06/21/chevy-en-v-pod-thing-shows-china/ > ... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrowland_%28film%29 > Chevy EN-V's in Disney's 2016 "Tomorrowland" movie > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EN-V#Chevrolet_EN-V > > http://www.wired.com/2014/06/harley-davidson-livewire/ > Harley LiveWire ecycle importance downplayed> ?planning for a flop? > > > http://evfleetworld.co.uk/news/2014/Jun/San-Francisco-International-Airport-to-install-high-speed-charging-stations/0438015085 > 4 L3 EVSE coming to SFO's free/60min-limit Cell-Phone-Waiting Lot > ... > > http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/06/19/san-francisco-international-airport-receives-grant-for-high-speed-electric-vehicle-charging-stations/ > ... > http://www.flysfo.com/to-from/parking/cell-phone-waiting-lot > + > EVLN: Why Lithium-Ion Batteries Degrade Over Time > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Driving-from-Kung-Fu-I-passed-a-gas-station-had-an-EV-moment-tp4670107.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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